Crip Colony
Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
Published on 17. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4780-1956-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Crip Colony, Sony CorANez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature, poetry, colonial records, political essays, travel narratives, and visual culture, CorANez Bolton traces how disability politics colluded with notions of Philippine mestizaje. He demonstrates that Filipino mestizo writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used mestizaje as a racial ideology of ability that marked Indigenous inhabitants of the Philippines as lacking in civilization and in need of uplift and rehabilitation. Heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire. In this way, mestizaje allowed for supposedly superior mixed-race subjects to govern the archipelago in collusion with American imperialism. By bringing disability studies together with studies of colonialism and queer-of-color critique, CorANez Bolton extends theorizations of mestizaje beyond the United States and Latin America while considering how Filipinx and Filipinx American thought fundamentally enhances understandings of the colonial body and the racial histories of disability.
Reviews / Votes
"Sony CoraNez Bolton's Crip Colony is a theoretically sophisticated contribution to the current surge in Filipinx American studies scholarship."- Martin Joseph Ponce (Society for U.S. Intellectual History) "In this stunning theoretical and archival work, Sony CorANez Bolton dives into the interstices of global colonial strategies and postcolonial projects by re-examining culturally significant Philippine images and narratives using the lenses of race, disability, and queerness. It is a monumental feat that begins with something small: a childhood memory of his mother using three languages- Spanish, English, and Tagalog-that lets him map out his own positionality as a mestizo Filipinx American professor of Spanish."
- Anna Felicia C. Sanchez (Southeast Asian Studies) "Crip Colony accomplishes and articulates a critical remapping of the Philippines and other spaces. Advocating for Filipinx and Latinx bodies to refuse disabling imperial diagnoses, this book contributes to postcolonial, disability, and Filipinx studies and will influence related fields for years to come."
- Drew Trinidad (GLQ) "Suffice to say, Crip Colony will make a lasting contribution to Philippine, American, and what we could call global Latinx studies. CorANez Bolton certainly sets the highest standard for the study of modern Spanish-language Philippine literature." - Paula C. Park (Philippine Studies)
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
3 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-1956-5 (9781478019565)
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Sony Coráñez Bolton
Crip Colony
Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
E-Book
01/2023
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Person
Sony CorANez Bolton is Assistant Professor of Spanish, American studies, and Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Crip Colonial Critique: Reading Mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines 1
1. Benevolent Rehabilitation and the Colonial Bodymind: Filipinx American Studies as Disability Studies 33
2. Mad MarIa Clara: The Queer Aesthetics of Mestizaje and Compulsory Able-Mindedness 67
3. Filipino Itineraries, Orientalizing Impairments: Chinese Foot-Binding and the Crip Coloniality of Travel Literature 99
4. A Colonial Model of Disability: Running Amok in the Mad Colonial Archive of the Philippines 131
Epilogue. A Song from Subic: Racial Disposability and the Intimacy of Cultural Translation 162
Notes 171
Bibliography 187
Index 197
Crip Colonial Critique: Reading Mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines 1
1. Benevolent Rehabilitation and the Colonial Bodymind: Filipinx American Studies as Disability Studies 33
2. Mad MarIa Clara: The Queer Aesthetics of Mestizaje and Compulsory Able-Mindedness 67
3. Filipino Itineraries, Orientalizing Impairments: Chinese Foot-Binding and the Crip Coloniality of Travel Literature 99
4. A Colonial Model of Disability: Running Amok in the Mad Colonial Archive of the Philippines 131
Epilogue. A Song from Subic: Racial Disposability and the Intimacy of Cultural Translation 162
Notes 171
Bibliography 187
Index 197